Andy Joseph fell asleep in a motel room after raping a woman three times, a report says

Andy Joseph (Orange County Jail )

September 23, 2013|By Henry Pierson Curtis, Orlando Sentinel

A faint voice on a 911 call early Sunday alerted Orlando police to a rape victim who told a dispatcher that her attacker had fallen asleep next to her.

The call at 5:56 a.m. came from Room 217 at a Motel 6 on American Way, a report stated.

"The caller was hiding under the bed covers and was whispering on the phone, making it hard to understand her," an officer wrote. The woman ran out and "she looked truly scared and nervous."

Moments later, 6-feet, 4-inch-tall Andy Joseph walked naked toward officers until he was ordered to lie down on the floor, the report stated.

After Joseph was handcuffed, officers found the woman hiding behind a wall and visibly shaken, dressed only in a white T-shirt.

When told that she was safe, the woman "immediately sighed with relief and looked as if she was going to cry, the report stated.

The 22-year-old woman told police she met Joseph, 33, about 1:30 p.m. Sunday after she lost her luggage at the Greyhound bus station on John Young Parkway and missed her next bus on a trip that began in West Palm Beach.

She told police she needed $20 to buy another ticket and that Joseph had seemed friendly and offered to give her the money, the report stated.

"While they were discussing her ticket problems, Joseph suggested they go 'smoke' (marijuana)," the report stated. "She agreed…because she was stressed out and needed to relax."

The woman and Joseph took a cab to a 7-Eleven on International Drive and then walked the nearby Motel 6.

Once inside, they smoked a joint and woman later told police her body felt "funny" before Joseph referred to a movie they were watching and told her, "he was going to be her boss and she was working for him."

When the movie ended, the woman said Joseph raped her the first of three times.

At one point when he fell asleep, she escaped from the room and tried to "flag down people in the parking lot but they refused to help her," the report stated.

Joseph found her and told her to return to the room where she remained until calling 911.

He was charged with three counts of sexual battery, two counts of false imprisonment and one count of tampering with a witness and sent to the Orange County Jail in lieu of $10,750 bail.

His previous arrests include felony convictions for theft and uttering a forged instrument and a misdemeanor conviction for marijuana possession